Law stated as of 17 Feb 2015 • USA (National/Federal)
A discussion of the Bowman v. Monsanto Co. litigation where Monsanto sued a 74-year-old Indiana farmer for allegedly infringing Monsanto's patented Roundup Ready® seeds by planting commodity seeds containing the patented technology purchased from a local grain elevator and saving and replanting later generations of those seeds. The key issue is how the patent exhaustion doctrine applies, if at all, to patented replicating technologies.